Not only is the French Government disgruntled at the departure from France of the celebrated unicorn tapestries of the Due de la Rochefoucauld, but the United States Government thinks there was something wrong with their arrival here. It is even suggested that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the purchaser, actually bought the tapestries here and then shipped them to London in order to avoid paying the income tax of about $377,000. They were admitted to this country duty free, as antiques, but are still held by customs authorities in a vault of the...
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